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This book (published in two volumes) provides a comprehensive and coherent account of Tensor theory. It shows that the three principal formulations of tensors—through transformation laws, as multilinear mappings, and as elements of tensor product spaces—are mathematically equivalent formulations of the same underlying multilinear structure.
Rather than treating these viewpoints separately, the book reveals their deep unity within a single structural framework that connects multilinear algebra, symmetry, geometry, physics, and computation. From fundamentals to advanced applications, it guides the reader from elementary concepts to sophisticated topics while developing the structural insight that establishes tensor theory as a unifying language of modern science.
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S. S. Z. Ashraf is a Professor of Physics at Aligarh Muslim University, India. His teaching interests include theoretical physics, tensor analysis, and group theory, while his research focuses on theoretical condensed matter physics, particularly electronic transport in graphene and other low-dimensional materials. With over two decades of teaching and research experience, he has published research articles in international journals, written popular physics articles, and delivered invited lectures at national and international conferences.
| Chapter 1: Outline of Etymology, Development, and Significance of Tensors |
| Chapter 2: Structural and Transformational Aspects of Tensors |
| Chapter 3: Representative Forms of Tensors |
| Chapter 4: Tensor Notations, Types, Rank, Order and Operations |
| Chapter 5: Tensor Indices |
| Chapter 6: Tensor Definitions |
| Chapter 7: Tensor Software |
| Chapter 8: Scalars, Vectors and Vector Spaces |
| Chapter 9: Linear Transformations and Their Representations |
| Chapter 10: Multilinear Functionals |
| Chapter 11: Dyads, Triads and Polyads |
| Chapter 12: Tensor Product Space |
| Chapter 13: Space, Manifold, and Coordinates |
| Chapter 14: Tangent, Cotangent and Tensor Spaces |
| Chapter 15: Metric Tensors and General Coordinate Transformation |
| Chapter 16: Cartesian Tensors |
| Chapter 17: Algebra of Tensors |
| Chapter 18: Symmetry of Tensors |
| Chapter 19: Reducible and Irreducible Tensors |
| Chapter 20: Differentiation and Integration in Tensor Calculus: A Structural Overview |
| Chapter 21: Christoffel Symbols and Covariant Derivatives of Tensor Fields |
| Chapter 22: Differential Operators for Tensor Fields |